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Sketch of Sarah Fuller Flower Adams, after a 1834 sketch by
Margaret Gillies.

Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (22 February 1805 –
14 August 1848) was an English poet.

She was born at High Street, Old Harlow, Essex, younger daughter of Mr. Benjamin Flower,
editor[1]
and the sister of composer Eliza Flower.[2] Her
longest work is Vivia Perpetua, A Dramatic Poem (1841),
having as its subject the life of the early Christians.

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Sarah
Adams (Harlow, Essex, 22
February1805 - 14 August1848) was a poet and hymn writer. She was
the younger daughter of Benjamin Flower, editor and owner of The
Cambridge Intelligencer, and married William Brydges Adams, an
inventor and civil engineer.

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He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower,
Alike they’re needful to the flower;
And joys and tears alike are sent
To give the soul fit nourishment.
As comes to me or cloud or sun,
Father! thy will, not mine, be done.